Have you noticed how, if a man passes quite close to you on a narrow pavement, you become all tense? The same tension takes place between planets…
“Better not to try anything than to be wicked! — That’s how most people acted, and they were probably right, dying their lumpish lives without collecting more than their share of the general blame; but he’d do whatever he was called to do…”
William T. Vollmann | Butterfly Stories